17And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
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So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. …
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. …
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. …
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-17)We have here, I. The account which the twelve gave their Master of the success of their ministry. They were not long out; but, when they returned, they told him all that they had done , as became servants who were sent on an errand. They told him what they had done , that, if they had done any thing amiss, they might mend it next time. II. Their retirement , for a little breathing : He took them,…
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